Abstract
Has studied influence of social and medical factors on tuberculosis morbidity in children and adolescents at Udmurt Republic. The study involved children and adolescents receiving preventive antituberculosis medications in 1990. Tuberculin testing was Irregular in 73.2 % of children with tuberculosis. Preventive treatment was irregular or untimely in 76.1 % of children needed this therapy in spite of annual increase in number of children and adolescents treated preventively. In a half of cases, administration of preventive antibiotics did not consider local resistance of Micobacterium tuberculosis. Persons infected with tuberculosis generally had low educational level, poor living conditions and hazardous habits influencing on the local epidemiological situation. One third of persons infected with had low income.
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